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An interactive App to Promote Safe and Effective use of Opioids in Young Children Postoperatively

Award Number: R43DA042645
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 02/01/2017
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2018

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An interactive App to Promote Safe and Effective use of Opioids in Young Children Postoperatively - In recent years increased attention to pain in children and adolescents has led to a recent 2-fold increase in opioid prescriptions. Unsurprisingly, the annual rates of analgesic-related adverse drug events (AR-ADEs) have soared to include >21,000 hospital admissions and hundreds of accidental overdose deaths in children and adolescents, and has remained a significant problem. At the heart of the problem is the fact that parents are left to manage opioid usage with little or no training. Many parents discontinue analgesics for children with significant clinical pain while others overlook signs of toxicity, leaving children vulnerable to ongoing pain or life-threatening events. under this SBIR project, ArchieMD will team with the University of Michigan to develop an interactive smartphone app that provides education and tools to help with accurate real-time assessments of both pain and analgesic-related adverse drug events (AR-ADEs). The goal is to improve analgesic safety and efficacy by enhancing the analgesic and pain management skills of parents whose young children are prescribed these agents for home use. We propose an adaptive approach that provides an interactive means to push and motivate ongoing assessment, and to provide immediate feedback to augment recognition of important symptoms in the absence of on-site professional guidance. Static and more traditional formats (e.g., brochures or websites) can present similar facts, but require self-initiation to seek and retrieve information. The efficacy of such differing analgesic message formats has not been compared. However, we hypothesize that an interactive, tailored smartphone app will facilitate and motivate pain and symptom assessment and improve parents' skill in recognizing serious signals and making appropriate analgesic decisions.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = -$11,582 )
2019	2017	ARCHIE MD INC.	6420 CONGRESS AVE #2050	BOCA RATON	FL	33487	PALM BEACH	USA	Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs	000	1	1/16/2019	NEW	-$11,582
														Subtotal = -$11,582

Issue Date FY: 2017 ( Subtotal = $225,000 )
2017	2017	ARCHIE MD INC.	6420 CONGRESS AVE #2050	BOCA RATON	FL	33487	PALM BEACH	USA	Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs	000	1	1/31/2017	NEW	$225,000
														Subtotal = $225,000

Grand Total All Awards = $213,418

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An interactive App to Promote Safe and Effective use of Opioids in Young Children Postoperatively

Award Number: R43DA042645

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 02/01/2017

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2018

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